Subject: Re: fedora official ntfs support

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:35, William Hooper wrote:
> > >
> > > NTFS is documented,
> > >
> > > 	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/index.html
> > 
> > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/help/about.html
> > " Microsoft hasn't released any documentation for NTFS. These documents
> > have been pieced together partly by carefully reading all the SDKs and
> > Windows help but mostly by reverse-engineering the filesystem."
>
> Right, and under most proprietary software licenses, reverse engineering
> is a prohibited activity, placing one in breach of the agreement. 

Again, where and how? There are many countries where reverse engineering
is completely legal, in others implementing something based on reverse
engineered documentation is also legal (while reverse engineering is not).
Etc, etc, etc.
 
> Hence, another litigation risk for RH/FC.

Even if the softwares aren't distributed in the prohibited countries? 
Or Fedora isn't an internatial project? E.g. the Translation Project
suggests so.

	Szaka